Privatizing Water : Governance Failure and the World's Urban Water Crisis /

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Water supply privatization was emblematic of the neoliberal turn in development policy in the 1990s. Proponents argued that the private sector could provide better services at lower costs than governments; opponents questioned the risks involved in delegating control over a life-sustaining resource...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Bakker, Karen J. (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, [2010]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Privatisering.
Rätten till vatten.
Vatten > politiska aspekter.
Vattenförsörjning > politiska aspekter.
Deregulierung.
Privatisierung.
Wasserwirtschaft.
Stadt.
Gemeindewirtschaft
Wasserversorgung
Deregulierung
Privatisierung
Wasserwirtschaft
Stadt
Right to water.
Privatization.
Etablissements d'utilite publique.
Privatisation.
Politique urbaine.
Gestion des eaux.
Distribution de l'eau.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
Droit à l'eau.
Services d'eau > Dereglementation.
Eau > Approvisionnement urbain > Aspect politique.
Privatization
Water utilities > Deregulation.
Municipal water supply > Political aspects.
Monde.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Introduction : Privatization and the urban water crisis
  • Governance failure : reframing the urban water supply "crisis"
  • Material emblems of citizenship : creating "public" water
  • Watering the thirsty poor : the water privatization debate
  • Citizens without a city : the techno-politics of urban water governance
  • Protesting privatization : transnational struggles over the human right to water
  • Commons versus commodities : the ambiguous merits of community water-supply management
  • Politics and biopolitics : debating ecological governance
  • Conclusion : Beyond privatization.

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